The "Snow Lies White" was sung at the Gloucester
Musical Festival of 1868 by Sims Reeves, accompanied by Sullivan.
The Times reported that it obtained a genuine and
well-deserved success and continued "The song was found charming,
the singing perfect; and to decline the encore which followed would
have been ungracious; so that once more the enemy of encores had to
make an exception to what few will be disposed to deny is a golden
rule."